Breast-strap.



F. IVI. SMITH.

BREAST STRAP..

APPLlcAloN man MAY 2. |911.

Patented Dec., 4, 1917.

FERNANDO M. SMITH, 0F HYSHAM, IVIGNTNA.

BREAST-STRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May a, 1917. Serial No. 165,895.

To all lwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FERNANDO M. SMITH, a ritizen ol the United States of America, and resident of Hysham, in the county of Rosebud and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breast-Straps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to harness and particularly to breast straps or neck yokes for connecting the hamesof harness to a yoke or tongue of avehicle, novel means being provided whereby independent movement of the breast straps is permitted, the said breast straps being provided With snap hooks whereby the same may be quickly ap plied to and removed from the harness connections and the yoke or tongue of the vehicle and the said invention has for its object the further provision of novel means for coupling` the breast .straps to the hook of the neck yoke so that cach strap may be moved independently of the other and independently of the snap of the breast hook.

lith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part'of this specification, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in thel several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of the edge of the breast strap with the neck yoke snap hook partly in section;

Fig. 2 illustrates a detail View of the coupling and snap hook; and

Fig. 3 illustrates a side View of that part of the device shown in Fig. 2.

In these drawings 5 denotes the snap hook adapted to be connected to a neck yoke, the same having parallel arms 6, each of said arms havinor an aperture 7 therein for the reception of a pivot 8.

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A link 9 is mounted on the pivot 8 and a link l0 straddles the link S) and is likewise mounted on the pivot 8 so that the said links may oseillate iinlepeinlently ot' each other and independently of the snap hook 5. The outerends of the links E) and l0 have apertures ll and l2 respectively, and the apertures have pins 1.3 therein to which the breast straps 14 are connected, the outer ends of the saidbreast straps having snap hooks l5 by which the breast straps are connected to the hames or other parts of the harness.

By reason of the construction of the yoke snap hook with the parallel arms, provision is made for assembling the links with respect to the parallel arms so that the links are free to move and this, in practice, has permitted an adjustment of the parts so that there is a pull in a direct line between the pivots of the links and the point of Connection of the breast straps with the harness.

In order to hold the links 9 in spaced relation to each other, a collar 16 is interposed between the ends of the links which are mounted on the pivot 8.

I claim- 1. The combination with a neck yoke snap hook having parallel arms with apertures at their outer ends, a pivot in the said apertures, links mounted on the said pivot, means Jfor holding the links in spaced relation to each other, links straddling the first mentioned links and mounted on said pivot, and breast straps connected to the said links.

2. The combination With a neck yoke snap hook having parallel arms with apertures at their outer ends, a pivot in the said apertures, links mounted on the said pivot, means for holding the links in spaced relation to each other, links straddling the first mentioned links and mounted on said pivot, breast straps connected to the said links, and means for Connecting the said breast straps to a harness member.

FERNANDO M. SMITH.

Patented Dec. a, MMV?. 

